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by ascagnel_ 23d ago
"Curing cancer" reminds me of a specific late-70s penny-stock grift, where companies promising a vaccine for cancer (but with no product or R&D) would be pumped-and-dumped. History doesn't repeat, but it tends to rhyme.
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by ascagnel_ 2mo ago
I also wonder if it's a trademark thing -- there are other world cups, but there's only one FIFA capital-W world capital-C cup. Just off the top of my head, the last decade has had cricket, rugby, basketball, and ice hockey world
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by ascagnel_ 2mo ago
As a lapsed NY Jets fan, I disagree -- competent ownership and management is required more than good draft picks. To wit: Tom Brady was drafted at 199 overall, but the Jets' last two QB picks (Zach Williams and Sam Darnold) are both jo
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by ascagnel_ 2mo ago
You don't even need custom bindings —- library bindings are a thing, even if they cost significantly more then a typical hard cover binding.
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by ascagnel_ 3mo ago
They also either could not or would not write efficient Flash clients on Mac OS or Linux, while the Windows version was fine. I bounced around a lot between the three OSes at that time, and Flash was bad enough on the other two that I would
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by ascagnel_ 3mo ago
In general, managing a single device is always going to be easier than managing multiple -- fewer things to keep charged, fewer updates to run, less stuff to carry, etc.
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
The first iPhone launched without a carrier subsidy. When the iPhone 4 launched on Verizon in 2011, you could either spend $200 and get locked into a 2-year contract, $300 and get locked into a 1-year contract, or buy the thing outright for
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
The Telecommunications Act of 1996. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_Act_of_1996 It passed with support from both parties in both the House and Senate.
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
> (And if you’re left-leaning, you can’t pin this mess on the “corporation-friendly” Republican Party because it was Bill Clinton who put his signature on this mess!) I would argue Clinton's presidency moved the Democrats from a cen
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
And then there was Bill Atkinson. https://www.folklore.org/Negative_2000_Lines_Of_Code.html
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
Microsoft moved to a subscription service because they botched the launch of the Xbox One, with users accumulating digital libraries on the PlayStation, and that failure is something that has continued to drag them further and further down.
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by ascagnel_ 4mo ago
Also, it's something of a pragmatic choice -- Valve did put major effort into native Linux games around 2013, but the effort fell flat for a number of reasons. Proton is them trying a different path towards severing or lessening the Wi
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by ascagnel_ 5mo ago
I'm shocked that Tops earned #1 -- they did a remodel a few years ago and started taking reservations (and turning people away during busy periods if they didn't have one), and it's much less of a diner and much more of a res
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by ascagnel_ 5mo ago
> Chicken and egg problem, if no-one buys it, no-one will develop any killer apps. Disagree on this. Going back as far as VisiCalc, it's about a device making space for a killer app, and that killer app selling devices. Apple has to
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by ascagnel_ 5mo ago
Costco requires a membership, and they do store credit back at higher tiers. They absolutely know what every member buys.
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by ascagnel_ 6mo ago
More to the point: having a monopoly isn't de facto illegal (just look up natural monopolies), it's using the monopoly power in an anti-competitive way that's illegal. Microsoft wasn't charged with having a monopoly, th
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by ascagnel_ 6mo ago
The exclusivity deals they struck early on are an albatross that still drags them down. I think the audience would have been much more receptive to deals like Alan Wake 2, where that money spigot got turned into something totally unique tha
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by ascagnel_ 6mo ago
Two organizations that love money (Apple & F1) collaborating to make a ton more money. The tech for in-cockpit capture and presentation of the races themselves was great, but the dialogue and basically everything off-track was boring or
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by ascagnel_ 7mo ago
> They're even wearing fascist style uniforms and all the commercials are so over-the-top The big clue to me is when they visit the recruiter. The man is sitting at a desk and says something along the lines of "the galactic mar
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by ascagnel_ 7mo ago
More to the point, now that most productions are using intimacy coordinators, there's a degree of certainty around the consent of R-rated images. There's basically no consent with what Grok is doing.
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
I'm not sure of the immigration status, just an article that called out ~70 transfers from MPD DOC to ICE following incarceration. I'd imagine it's a mix of documented and undocumented immigrants, as being convicted of a crim
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
MPD _is_ sharing and coordinating with ICE _when they're supposed to be_. MPD has already transferred ~70 people to ICE for deportation this year alone, after they completed prison sentences (which ICE claimed as their own arrests).
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
Not a MN resident, but both the daycare my child attended before starting school and every daycare in my area have a combination of tinted/obscured windows and strict access control, even for parents (eg: a parent isn't allowed to
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
I'd believe that. I was in a situation where a bag started smoking _in the security checkpoint_ (it was a camera battery failing), and the TSA agents all abandoned the checkpoint. As a result, the FAA issued a full ground stop and had
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
While I do agree with you (and unlike the other reply, I want to acknowledge that this bad-faith kind of thing happened with Louisiana declaring law enforcement a protected class), my hope was that this would have happened via Dominion&#x27
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
I would argue a season or episode of television is a product, and Apple TV gates them behind a subscription. I used to buy the season passes so I could return to shows later; that's not an option for ATV stuff.
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
> Name me something a product, not a service which you can only subscribe in Apple's ecosystem. The shows on Apple TV are only available via a subscription; there's no way to have a perpetual purchase (at least as far as that a
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by ascagnel_ 8mo ago
Unlikely -- this pack was created for the latest revision of the "Ironwail" source port, and that only supports Windows & Linux.
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by ascagnel_ 9mo ago
And if the rumors are right -- that hardware SVP John Ternus is next in line for CEO -- I could see a world where the company doubles-down on their specialized hardware vs. services.
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by ascagnel_ 10mo ago
Arena shooters have been relegated to side modes in other, bigger games. Probably the last big shooter with that as its focus was Halo: Infinite, but that struggled to stay relevant and its next big update will be its last.

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